Egypt Refugee Appeal For Refugees from Africa, Iraq and Yemen 2018 | Page 24

For Refugees & Asylum-seekers from
Sub-Saharan Africa, Iraq & Yemen
and other vulnerable categories, especially children and
women.
Protection monitoring, legal counselling and coordinated
humanitarian access and assistance to detainees will
also remain a priority for UNHCR, as well training of law
enforcement and immigration officials on international
refugee protection, rescue at sea, human trafficking,
smuggling, and mixed migration.
Supporting the implementation of the National Strategy
for Combating Violence against Women and the National
Strategy for the Empowerment of Women will remain
a priority and will involve close cooperation with the
National Council for Women and other relevant partners.
Innovative prevention initiatives and coordinated quality
response services will be enhanced in 2018 as well as
efforts to reinforce government and non-government
SGBV prevention and response capacities and to support
the socio-economic empowerment of women while also
strengthening national policies and mechanisms.
To respond to the specific needs of sub-Saharan African,
Iraqi, and Yemeni refugee children and their parents,
including UASC and other children at risk, the protection
partners will continue to play a vital role in the coordination
of stakeholders’ efforts to provide access to quality child
protection services to all refugee children, adolescents,
youth and caregivers affected by forced displacement.
This is in addition to supporting a holistic, inclusive,
and sustainable response to address their needs and
to prevent harmful coping mechanisms. A continued
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focus will remain on timely identification and referral of
cases and the provision of quality case management,
including best interest assessments and best interest
determination. Further priority areas will cover capacity
building initiatives, strengthening of alternative care
arrangements in coordination with communities and
the authorities, provision of specialized services for
children with disabilities, cash-based interventions, and
provision of community-based child protection services
and specialized psychosocial support, including life
skills and positive parenting programmes. Implementing
the community-based approach, protection partners
will continue to increase engagement with the various
refugee communities to strengthen community capacity
for self-management. As initiated by UNHCR in the past
three years, training, material and technical support
will be provided to community initiatives. Community
outreach activities, including community meetings and
dissemination of information on services rendered to
refugees as well as dialogue with the communities
over their protection concerns and how they can be
resolved, remain a key objective, as well as promoting
social cohesion between refugee and impacted host
communities. These efforts will continue to be led by
UNHCR throughout 2018.
Refugees will continue to benefit from multi-year planning
and prioritization for the strategic use of resettlement as a
protection tool. The cases of 3,000 sub-Saharan African,
Iraqi and Yemeni refugees are expected to be submitted
for resettlement consideration in 2018.